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According to the Department of Energy website, which has been acting as a clearinghouse of information regarding the electric grid in the Northeast, at the peak of Hurricane Sandy there were over 8 million “customers” (these can include entire buildings) at the peak of the outage.

Adding all the people who have been restored, the number is a mind-bending 8,460,344 8,317,507 total “customers” who lost power due to Sandy across twenty one states. CORRECTION: Those who had been restored were already counted in “peak outages,” we regret the error.

Since then, the government has done all it can to stay out of the way of electric repair crews, going so far as to suspend many regulations in order to allow companies to expedite repairs and give fuel to those so desperate for energy. The result has been telling, with 4,657,013 remaining “customers” left without power as of 9AM EDT on November 1st.

Con Edison has stated that they expect repairs to last until at least through November 10th or 11th –however this may be an overly pessimistic view so folks will see them in a better light when the lights finally do come back on.

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